Mission Critical Communication – User Equipment Protocol Conformance Testing

 One important question from public-safety agencies, while selecting a Mission Critical Communication (MCC) User Equipment (UE), is: Will this UE interwork with MCC components used by other public-safety agencies in the vicinity? The associated concern, can be addressed to a great extent, if the UE is certified to be 3GPP MCC Protocol compliant.
Polaris Networks has been working on MCC for many years, and is currently engaged with US NIST in a cooperative agreement, to develop a MCC UE Protocol Certification Test Tool. Sudipto Biswas, the Principal Investigator in this endeavor, will be sharing some of the challenges in this journey.
In this presentation you can get an idea on background information related to MCC service, MCC network model, UE (DUT) layers, test tool components, and MCC protocol features to be tested. You can also get to know about the challenges related to, suitable DUT (UE) availability, 3GPP standards status, 3GPP Abstract Test Suite status, cryptographic functions, DUT side automation, suitable base station availability, testing Evolved Multimedia Broadcast Muticast Service (eMBMS) services, and testing over 5G.